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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Howdy Partner...Merry Christmas to Ya

My buddy Les asked the following question to the blogging world "What's on your tree?"
My tree is such a combination of ornaments from all the places we lived over the years.

We lived in Germany for about 7 years and the first time we were there was very early in our marriage. As newlyweds our mission was to find cool ornaments for our tree. I love Santa...so we got a lot of Santas over the years. If you look at this collage...the Santa with the white lace background is one that stays up year round. I used to tell the kids that Santa was always watching. That Santa has been mine since I was a kid myself.

Many of the German ornaments are wooden and handmade.

Some of these ornaments are delicate and have not always fared too well over the years. These are some of the more delicate ones.

Merry Christmas to all of you and your families. Hope yours is wonderful.

23 comments:

I love your Santas! I didn't decorate a tree this year (and yes, I'm still dreaming about a shiny blue aluminum Christmas tree for the Airstream) - but there is one up at my Dad's (an artificial one - ugh) and I should take some images of the ornaments! (It'll go on 'the list' of things to do...).

Your dog friends look quite at home in front of the tree - as if they are waiting for Santa!

Thank you for the link. Many of your wooden ornaments look like some we had as a kid. We got them as a kit and you glued them together and painted them with the paint provided. Do kids still enjoy doing things like this? Mine will sit down ocassionally for crafts, but it is not his first choice. Your dogs look Christmas card worthy. Please have a merry Christmas and rich in all the right ways new year.

Fabulous Santa collection and your other ornaments are wonderful too Janet. I love to collect ornaments. In fact, even tho I hate crowds, I plan to hit the after Christmas sales as I have my eye on several expensive ones I'd like to get for at least half price. Hope your Christmas is splendid.

Janet, I really like this post. The ornaments are great. We have added a couple each year we've been married - 34 years and its fun to bring them out and remember all those Christmas's past. Your dogs are so cute and that Australian Shepperd is a real beauty. Merry Christmas!

Janet girl ! I love all of your ornaments and YES ! Having lived in Holland (South Limburg province .. between Germany and Belgium) going to Christmas markets was absolutely wonderful .. the smell of anise brings memories of that back every time I smell fennel ! LOLNorth Americans are so lucky to have a chance at living in Europe !I thinkyour pups were too happy to pose for this picture : )That was such a fluke I got the girls then and there on the mantle .. they are so big now, I can't see that ever happening again ? LOLHope you are having wonderful holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year girl !!

Hi Joy, I do miss the Christmas markets in Europe.,..sights, sounds and for sure the smells of wonderful goodies. I was lucky with the doggie pose...have a third dog who was no where to be found when the camera came out. Oh well.

Hi Gail, thanks so much! Christmas was great! A very Happy New Year to you as well.

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